Co-Founder at Empathic Intervision - Saint-Amand-de-Vergt, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Dr Katherine Train and Dr Lidewij Niezink have founded Empathic Intervision, an enactive practice of empathy in employee routines to identify opportunities and co-create solutions to challenges. Empathic Intervision helps to achieve improved inter-collegial support, professional expertise, and improved quality of work. It is currently applied as a decision making model, a peer supervision model and to human-centred design and design thinking with specific application to health care and social services. Empathic intervision is versatile: it can be a peer support and peer learning process as well as a method for co-creation, problem solving and decision making. It incorporates elements of warmth and care without losing sight of goals, precision and practicality. The process of an Empathic Intervision consists of five elements:Self-empathy and intention settingKinesthetic empathy and connection with othersReflective empathy and creating spaceImaginative empathy and diversifying perspectivesEmpathic creativity and actionable outcomes